HACE Symptoms

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High altitude cerebral edema or HACE is the last stage of AMS. In fact, AMS can be regarded as the mild form of HACE. What happens when you have HACE is that your brain swells and stops working properly. HACE symptoms include a several and obvious signs of mental functions failing. The victim suffers from confusion, over fatigue and weird behaviour. There is one way of testing somebody if he’s suffering from HACE. It is through “gait ataxia”, simply by walking heel to toe on a straight line on the ground. Healthy people can easily pass this type of test, and anyone who experiences difficulty balancing themselves while they do this, is obviously showing signs of HACE. HACE is extremely dangerous. It boils down to a few hours to help a person suffering with HACE. If you suspect from your team that he/she is suffering from HACE, the cure is, DESCENT. And give them Dexamethasone to relieve the symptoms. So you can actually have more time to go down further.